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British ISPs are announcing an increase in free public hotspots in preparation for the summer Olympics. These 'public' WiFi hubs also employ filtering tactics to avoid users accessing inappropriate content. Organizations, meanwhile, question the current filtering strategies' efficacy and unintended consequences.
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Anti-online censorship protests spearheaded by online activist group Anonymous in India this weekend drew sparse crowds, but their efforts underscore a larger debate around Internet regulation in the world’s largest democracy.
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Cyberweapon superbugs Flame and Stuxnet are reported as being tied to each other and created by nation-state sponsors. As these new technologies become more widespread, the intricate web of state relations and cyberattacks warps.
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A new Trojan bug targeting political dissidents was traced back to the Syrian government, and increasing evidence suggests that Damascus is ramping up internet surveillance.
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China clamps down on Tiananmen discussion; Google warns users of state-sponsored attacks; China unveils changes to Internet law; Kuwaiti sentenced to 10 years for blasphemous tweet
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The Chinese government is poised to enact a new level of regulation over the Internet, one that seeks to impose new, stricter rules on microblog services and their users.
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The Open Empowerment project, which aims to develop policy-relevant research on the "new criminality" of cyberspace in Latin America, was launched on May 29. The project's first publication is available online.
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The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China marks an annual struggle between the pro-democracy activists wishing to commemorate the event and the Chinese censors hoping to quash all online discussion of the sensitive topic.
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Online anonymity network Tor has reported signs that the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation, the country's only ISP, is using deep packet inspection.
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China's Twitter-like microblogging service updated their user contract last week, placing more restrictions on what users can and cannot post online.
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The US intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement recently leaked. As officials from nine different countries meet to negotiate the terms of the agreement, Internet freedom defenders are calling the TPP the cousin to ACTA.
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Tor releases OONI-Probe and finds two blocked sites in Palestine; Sina Weibo releases specific guidelines for publishing content; the browser game Wolfenstein 3D is banned in Germany for its Nazi references; the Court of the Hague orders the Pirate Party to stop providing reverse proxies to the Pirate Bay.
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The Tor Project's most recent tool, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, collects data from individual computers to map Internet surveillance and filtering around the world.
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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Authority ordered the attorney general to unblock eight news websites after receiving criticisms from all sides about its attempts to censor.
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Freedom House releases its 2012 "Freedom of the Press" Survey; CPJ releases its second report ranking the most censored countries in the world.
A new Trojan bug targeting political dissidents was traced back to the Syrian government, and increasing evidence suggests that Damascus is ramping up internet surveillance.
China clamps down on Tiananmen discussion; Google warns users of state-sponsored attacks; China unveils changes to Internet law; Kuwaiti sentenced to 10 years for blasphemous tweet
Tor releases OONI-Probe and finds two blocked sites in Palestine; Sina Weibo releases specific guidelines for publishing content; the browser game Wolfenstein 3D is banned in Germany for its Nazi references; the Court of the Hague orders the Pirate Party to stop providing reverse proxies to the Pirate Bay.
The Tor Project's most recent tool, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, collects data from individual computers to map Internet surveillance and filtering around the world.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Authority ordered the attorney general to unblock eight news websites after receiving criticisms from all sides about its attempts to censor.
Freedom House releases its 2012 "Freedom of the Press" Survey; CPJ releases its second report ranking the most censored countries in the world.
